What is "sticklike"

Usage examples of "sticklike".

Rone before the highlander could stop him, dancing about in maddened delight, his sticklike form disappearing into the smoke.

In the front there was an ancient painting of sticklike hunters pointing to a flattened dish with circles around its rim.

Meg, face screwed up in concentration, tentatively touched the sticklike leg.

As she glanced back and forth, she became aware that there were crude marks etched into the walls, as if with a stone: weird concentric ribbons, sticklike figures, great clouds of frantic scribbles.

Then, incredibly, the malenti priestess watched as a sticklike figure pushed itself up from the white powder around it.

A short, pudgy human with thin, sticklike arms, he sat alone at the largest table, his slightly bulging eyes focused unblinkingly on Karrde and Shada as they stepped into the room.

The wizard brought his hand up, staring at the gold chain looped over his sticklike fingers.

He crossed his sticklike legs and sent curling puffs of smoke at the ceiling.

Hazy light revealed carvings pecked into the stones that lined the passageway: mostly lozenges and spirals, but here and there curious sticklike hands which reached toward four lines cut above them.

He remembered the confused aftermath, the deputation of eight armed men, led by Jordan Teague himself carrying a pump-action, Teague striding out of town toward the blackened, sticklike figure rustling its way along the rutted blacktop.

The commander squatted before a bank of instruments, manipulated a simple sticklike control, and after a moment the ship took to the air.

On the fifth day, having reached the limits of forbearance, he had turned the herd and tried to break back through their line, and they had been there to head him off, the tiny upright sticklike figures, so deceptively frail and yet so deadly, springing up from the yeHow grass, barring his escape to the south, flapping blankets and beating on empty paraffin tins, until his courage failed and the old bull turned back, and led his herds once more down the rugged escarpment towards the great river.

Tess reached for the sticklike fingers and squeezed, no longer certain whether she was reassuring herself or Aunt Pauline.

Aurelianus opened a little box and handed Duffy one of the sticklike things.

However, the figures meant to represent people were sticklike drawings a child might make.